SB-0173, As Passed Senate, April 23, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 173

 

 

March 7, 2019, Introduced by Senator STAMAS and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 676d (MCL 257.676d), as added by 2014 PA 303.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 676d. (1) A local unit of government shall not require as

 

a term of a contract with a wrecker, recovery, or towing service

 

that the wrecker, recovery, or towing service pay a fee to that

 

local unit of government for responding to the scene of an impound,

 

accident, disabled vehicle, or abandoned vehicle and providing

 

wrecker, recovery, or towing services. A local unit of government

 

shall not accept a payment, commission, or portion of wrecker,

 

recovery, or towing service fees from a wrecker, recovery, or

 

towing service in exchange for securing business for that wrecker,

 

recovery, or towing service.

 

     (2) A wrecker, recovery, or towing service shall not offer to

 

a local unit of government a payment, fee, or commission to induce

 

the local unit of government to enter into a contract with or

 

secure business for the wrecker, recovery, or towing service.

 

     (3) This section only applies to a contract between a local

 

unit of government and a wrecker, recovery, or towing service that

 

is entered into or renewed after the effective date of the

 

amendatory act that added this section.January 7, 2015.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.